thwart
verb (used with object)
to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
unthwarted
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a word derived from
thwart.
Example Sentences
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I replied, though, unthwarted, “All mine, too, are imported! See this one in my pocket? It’s phlegmish.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2020
End, pretty much, with an eager and unthwarted pilot, zooming down the narrow canyon of a spaceship, with his wingmen taking hits on his behalf and a tiny yet crucial target in his sights?
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 18, 2015
Unlike many a prodigy, young Marjorie Edwards is a natural, unthwarted person who rides a bicycle, collects stamps, wishes she could tap dance better than she does, reveres Yehudi Menuhin.
From Time Magazine Archive
The only ascertained bases of the tendency are her early reactions, unthwarted by parental control, followed by habit formation; all in an environment peculiarly favorable to deception.
From Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology by William Healy
He had his life-work now, to extend over the earth a great and perfect system in which the will of man ran smooth and unthwarted, timeless, a Godhead in process.
From Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
